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Requisites

Pre-requisite: BEDU (Primary) or BPED Only - EDP2111

Other requisites

Students enrolling in courses which do not follow the recommended enrolment pattern cannot be assured of a developmental learning experience or program completion within their preferred timeframe.

Rationale

Educators need tools and skills in English language use to teach effectively. This is a priority of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APSTs) for initial teacher education. They have to develop their own linguistic and cultural awareness skills in order to meet the comprehension and performance challenges of learners from a range of socio-cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The demographics of learners in a range of instructional settings worldwide is increasingly multicultural with home languages and social environments that are not English or they share a dominant place with English. As a result, new understandings of how to enhance opportunities for these learners need to be developed.

Synopsis

This course outlines what language is, how meaning is realised in the use of Standard Australian English and how it operates in mainstream learning environments. It provides knowledge of the cognitive processes in language acquisition with strategies and tools for enhancing the communicative competence of learners from culturally diverse home backgrounds. Learners become familiar with the potential needs of second language learners through the broad phases of Beginning English, Emerging English, Developing English and Consolidating English as described on the ESL Bandscales. They develop resources by sequencing and integrating language learning activities through the macro skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing alongside grammar and vocabulary applied to a content discipline in an Australian curriculum. Information Literacy is extended through analysis of Internet resource sites of Education Queensland, ACARA, AITSL and global professional language network with readings examining principles and educational practice in English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D).

Objectives

Topics

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

Reference materials

Student workload expectations

Assessment details

Important assessment information

1. Attendance requirements:
   
   It is the students' responsibility to attend and participate appropriately in all activities scheduled for them, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them, to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.
   
   
2. Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
   
   To satisfactorily complete an individual assessment item a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks for that item.
   
   
3. Penalties for late submission of required work:
   
   Students should refer to the Assessment Procedure (point 4.2.4)
   
   
4. Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
   
   To be assured of receiving a passing grade a student must achieve at least 50% of the total weighted marks available for the course.
   
   
5. Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
   
   The final grades for students will be assigned on the basis of the aggregate of the weighted marks obtained for each of the summative items for the course.
   
   
6. Examination information:
   
   There is no examination in this course.
   
   
7. Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
   
   There is no examination in this course, there will be no deferred or supplementary examinations.
   
   
8. ¾«¶«´«Ã½app Student Policies:
   
   Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene ¾«¶«´«Ã½app policies and practices. These policies can be found at .
   
   

Assessment notes

1. Referencing in assignments must comply with the APA referencing system. This system should be used by students to format details of the information sources they have cited in their work. The APA style to be used is defined by the USQ library's referencing guide. This guide can be found at .
   
   

Evaluation and benchmarking

In meeting the ¾«¶«´«Ã½app’s aims to establish quality learning and teaching for all programs, this course monitors and ensures quality assurance and improvements in at least two ways. This course:
1. conforms to the USQ Policy on Evaluation of Teaching, Courses and Programs to ensure ongoing monitoring and systematic improvement
2. forms part of the Bachelor of Education and is benchmarked against the:

1. internal USQ accreditation/reaccreditation processes which include (i) stringent standards in the independent accreditation of its academic programs, (ii) close integration between business and academic planning, and (iii) regular and rigorous review
2. Queensland College of Teachers
3. Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL).

Other requirements

1. Participation: Students can expect it will be necessary to participate in and contribute to a range of learning opportunities in this course including online study activities, lectures, tutorials, seminar presentations, group discussions and self-directed study activities in order to apply the coursework that will enable quality assessment tasks to be submitted as evidence of professional development.